Data Centre Colocation Blog

Higher temperatures, power availability, and efficiency are among a host of factors impacting how and where data centres, particularly those where “green” has become a big factor for customers, are being built. Read more…

For many years, as a country with the cheapest electricity in the world, South African businesses did not place the same focus on energy consumption and efficiency as companies situated in other countries. Now, we’re finding that local CIOs have to work closer than ever before with facilities managers to better understand consumption and close the gap between facilities and business. Read more…

Given all the time, investment and energy (literally) that enterprise organizations have been making in their data center facilities, you’d think that the availability of such facilities is a non-issue. You’d be wrong.

Nemertes Research predicts a shortage of colocation space in the U.S. beginning this year, growing to a $1.9 billion facilities gap by 2015. Read more

Finance discussions for the planned 10,000-kilometre South Atlantic Express (SAex) cable connecting South Africa with Brazil “are well advanced,” according to the newly appointed CEO at eFive Telecoms, the company behind the R3 billion project. Read more…

Quite a few firms are reluctant to shift to colocation due to the off-site nature of their web servers, but the change can in fact deliver a number of benefits with regards to both software and hardware solutions.

Colocation could help improve your IT expense, lessoning your budget by decreasing overhead and operating expenditure.  Without having your server collocated, your business may be losing money due to keeping your server in-house and having to deal with server upkeep.  Keep your business enterprise server always connected with a range of colocation plans from 1U colocation to full server rack colocation. Hosting within a data center means redundancy for your network. With disaster recovery and business continuity solutions, these services are vital in making sure that your network stays online. Startup businesses can reap the benefits of a single server, otherwise known as 1U, colocation plans which will give business accessibility to a safe and secure data center at a reasonable price.  Considering the expenses involved in dedicated server web host and in transporting the machines towards data center, Colocation hosting relieves you of these kinds of expenses.  If you    have the resources to sustain a collocated server, along with your resource requirements are big, colocation may be your very best choice.  A number of important considerations need to be looked into while deciding on a colocation host. Read more…

Last year’s fairly significant — AWS outage highlighted the challenges that delivering consistent data center uptime presents. The ongoing challenge of keeping a data center online is a highly complex and often underestimated task, but one that provides the bedrock of any public cloud availability. If the data center fails, the cloud will be offline, and a cloud is only as good as the data center in which it resides.

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Consumers can look forward to even cheaper broadband prices, with many new undersea cables set to come online within the next 18 months. It is unclear how much of a decrease is likely, but talk in the industry is of a 10% to 20% drop in local prices, which are regarded as being among the highest in the world.

The Seacom cable may have increased South Africa’s undersea capacity by 380% since it was launched in 2009, but several new cables are set to increase broadband capacity by a further 360% — more than the total of all undersea cable systems serving the country.

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As organizations wrestle with the challenges of data center expansion, IT executives are increasingly turning to outsourcing options for expansion and cost control. There are more outsourcing options than ever before, including data center as a service (DCaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and even cloud providers. But with additional choices come more pitfalls and issues to consider before making an outsourcing commitment. Pete Sclafani, chief information officer at network automation firm 6connect Inc., offers some practical guidance for organizations considering a move to outsourced IT services… read more

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MyBroadband’s Staff Writer is directly plugged into the South African Internet backbone, and spits out press releases and other news as he receives it. … ONEdotCOM, which forms part of Blue Platinum Ventures, is positioned as the holding company’s …… Read More

The South African National Space Agency (SANSA) has had an active role in … of an advanced earth observation data centre through the South African Earth …
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